The object explored here, entitled Two Stories, is the first work Leonard and Virginia Woolf published themselves through Hogarth Press and includes Leonard’s “Three Jews” and Virginia’s “The Mark on the Wall” with four...
One of the things that was brought up in class about “A Dream of Armageddon” was how it seems less like speculative fiction because it’s in the context of a dream, and therefore easy...
Atlanta’s Garland is a miscellany of short stories published to celebrate the Edinburgh University Women’s Union on its 21st anniversary. The collection features works that illustrate contemporary women’s art by writers of various European...
This small, thin, first edition book, containing only short stories, was published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s personal printing press, the Hogarth Press, in 1943. With just this information, we know that the book...
When reading Renee Vivien’s collection of poems, “The Muse of the Violets”, in conversation with “Prince Charming”, the original book brings to life different aspects of her storytelling and her poetry. Through interacting with...
At the Sweet Hour of Hand in Hand, published by The Naiad Press on 1979, is a beautiful book of poems by Reneé Vivien. It is framed as a small, simple, soft-cover book that...
For this post, I’ll analyze the first printing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Two Stories. The story I’ll focus on, The Mark on the Wall, depicts a narrator who contemplates the decline of tradition...
“A Dream of Armageddon” was first published as a stand-alone short story within a British weekly magazine in 1901. In the story, a man riding a train meets an elderly man who begins to...
It was my first time in the Rubenstein library, and having the experience of reading Albert Camus’s Nobel Prize speech in this library was very unique. I had previously read many Nobel prize speeches,...
I expected H.G Wells’ The War of the Worlds to come in a compact book, with a colorful comic illustration similar to modern science fiction novels and comic books. However, what I actually found was a...
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